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Corporations won't hire more workers just because their tax bill is lower and they spend less on regulations. In case you hadn't noticed, corporate profits are up. Most companies don't even know what to do with the profits they're already making. Not incidentally, much of those profits have come from replacing jobs with computer software or outsourcing them abroad.
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I think requiring the corps contribute to a Works Program fund may be a good idea--if someone can sell it. Its high time corporations contribute to this country since they really don't seem to--other than the olympics. Didn't Truman do this? Or was it FDR?
abumbyanyothername
(2,711 posts)I would suggest building experimental communities or retrofitting existing communities to become places that are energy shock resilient -- places where eating, transportation, telecommunications, waste disposal, water and the like are not dependent on fossil fuel.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Updating bridges, assisting teachers in classrooms, increasing hospital staffing, supervising kids on playgrounds in the parks, working in national and state parks. There is lots to do. People with income can spend and save money, eventually maybe even start their own businesses.
Starting a job corps as a public/private partnership funded primarily with money that corporations would be required to pay into it would be a great idea and not all that burdensome on the corporations.